Kurd Fuad Pasha, born in

Constantinople Constantinople (#Names of Constantinople, see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman Empire, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Latin Empire, Latin, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empire ...

, was a Vice President of the

Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan Society for the Rise of Kurdistan () also known as the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (SAK), was secretly established in Constantinople on 6 November 1917 and officially announced organization formed on the 17 December 1918. It was he ...

. Fuad was the son of

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, nephew to

Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha, also known as Kambur Ahmed İzzet Bey, (1871, Constaninople –1920), an Ottoman Kurd, governor and minister, was the son of Husein Pasha, half brother of Said Pasha Kurd and uncle of Şerif Pasha and Kurd Fuad Pasha. ...

and brother of

Şerif Pasha Mehmed Şerif Pasha (1865 – 22 December 1951), a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). He was a leading Kurdis ...

. He was a cavalry officer and graduated from the

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. He was the head of the

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and the Ottoman court of military appeals. He was made to retire from the military and his posts by the

Committee of Union and Progress The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; , French language, French: ''Union et Progrès'') was a revolutionary group, secret society, and political party, active between 1889 and 1926 ...

because of his brother's opposition activities. Fuad was one of the leading figures of the Kurdish movement. His wife was Suat Hanım, the sister of

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and the eldest of the three daughters of

Syrja Vlora Syreja Vlora (1860–1940), usually referred to as Syrja Bey Vlora (), was an Ottoman Albanian politician, an active figure of the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912 and one of the delegates of the Assembly of Vlorë. Biography Syrja B ...

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